To his more than 150,000 followers on Instagram, Dr. Martin Jugenburg is Real Dr. 6ix, a well-coiffed Toronto plastic surgeon…
Archive
Focus Tag: Public Health
Twitter had a new plan to fight extremism — then Elon arrived | The Verge
by Zoe Schiffer and Casey Newton
September 6, 2022
It had been a long pandemic for Twitter’s research team. Tasked with solving some of the platform’s toughest problems around…
China has censored a top health information platform | MIT Technology Review
by Zeyi Yang
August 15, 2022
China has censored DXY, the country's leading health information platform. On August 9, DXY fell silent across social media, where…
Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for COVID-19 headlines, less trust but greater use of formal information sources, and greater willingness to pay for masks among social media users in Pakistan | HKS Misinformation Review
by Ayesha Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
July 14, 2022
We evaluated the relationship between individual differences in cognitive reflection and the ability to discern between true and false COVID-19…
Big Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe world | MIT Technology Review
by Abby Ohlheiser and Hana Kiros
June 29, 2022
Google says in its terms of service that the company reserves the right to remove any content that violates the…
Instagram hides some posts that mention abortion | AP News
by Amanda Seitz
June 29, 2022
Instagram is blocking posts that mention abortion from public view, in some cases requiring its users to confirm their age…
The biggest privacy risks in seeking abortion care in post-Roe America | The Verge
by Russell Brandom, Nicole Wetsman, Corin Faife, and Mary Beth Griggs
June 29, 2022
For millions of Americans, finding abortion services in the US just became a legal minefield. With the Supreme Court’s ruling…
The Impotence of the Fourth Amendment in a Post-Roe World | Lawfare
by Jolynn Dellinger and Stephanie Pell
June 15, 2022
The year is 2023. It’s been one year since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson…
How science helps fuel a culture of misinformation | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Joelle Renstrom
June 14, 2022
On November 8, 2021, the American Heart Association journal Circulation published a 300-word abstract of a research paper warning that…
Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey | American Anthropologist
by Luke J. Matthews, Sarah A. Nowak, Courtney C. Gidengil, Christine Chen, Joseph M. Stubbersfield, Jamshid J. Tehrani, and Andrew M. Parker
June 8, 2022
Abstract We conducted a nationally representative survey of parents’ beliefs and self-reported behaviors regarding childhood vaccinations. Using Bayesian selection among…